PEG and template system?

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newland
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PEG and template system?

Post by newland »

Hi,

I'm wondering, is there something like the PEG implementation of guile:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs ... rsing.html

That would allow to define templates and to define parsing rules for e.g. the wiki, without using regular expressions. Probably slower, but probably also easier to read.

thanks,

newland

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Re: PEG and template system?

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Interesting. Are PEG related to the Scheme Regular Expressions that the Scheme crowd created a few years ago as the superior alternative to regular expressions?

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-115/srfi- ... l#Abstract

Or the Structural Regular Expressions designed by Rob Pike?

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structur ... xps/se.pdf
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Re: PEG and template system?

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Hi,

The scheme regex or Pike's system are not related to PEG's. A PEG is a top down parsing language, and you can use it to parse data or (small) command languages. A PEG often looks like a BNF , so making it quite easy to read and write. In contrast, simple regexes are easy to write and work fast, but complicated regexes are difficult to write and nearly impossible to decipher. Lua also has a quite nice PEG implementation.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_e ... on_grammar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus–Naur_Form

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Re: PEG and template system?

Post by newland »

Hi,

forgot to add this link: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/ry10-01.pdf on how to write regex equivalent in PEG. That article gives some motivation why PEG's are sometimes easier.

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